Parthia Campaign (Part 8): Once More Unto the Breach

Alright guys, you're back to see the second wave of an army attacking my last settlement. You can see my armies are battled and bruised. Even the garrison army is down to almost nothing. This main army here has almost nothing. And if you haven't seen the last battle where I had to hold off a bactrian force with mostly spears coming in, well then definitely go ahead and rewatch that. That was freaking epic. Anyways, what you can see here is this army is going to be moving in on my capital, but this time we're going to be fighting more of a cavalry army, so I think, you know, this will be fought differently. Percentage chances of winning are much lower than last time, but let's go ahead and see what happens. This is going to be the- this is just sad. Look at this, the bloodletters against the champions of the fire victory. It's going to be one slinger with maybe like 10 guys in it. Anyways, here's my city here. They're going to be definitely coming in for the fight, charging the center, and not much that I'm able to do in this case. Let's go ahead and set these guys. Aw, that's so cute. That's just so cute. These guys are going to defend against a huge army. The city's crumbling, my city is just- okay, let's put some spears here, some reinforcements here, cavalry here, and mob units, mob units. You're going to stop them up there. All right, let's do this ----. One army there. Other army is probably going to be coming over here. Yep. Oh no, that's us. That's us. So if this is us, then we definitely have to get to the battle way before the enemy does. I know they have another reinforcing army. Okay, there it is. Let's go and intercept. If I can intercept these guys before they just- ah, steplancers. It's going to be very difficult to do. Pull these guys out. You go in. I'm going to get my slingers actually lined up here, trying to retake the plaza because I know what the AI is going to tell them to do. So let's get some spears over here. Let's go and see how the main battle is going to be taking shape. So the opposition is going to start moving in. They're actually- looks like they're waiting to send this one unit of axes here. So that's a smart move. They're not going to send in all their cavalry. That's probably the best choice. Looks like this is my general. One group of slingers here. You're going to have to hold there. You're going to have to be ready to charge in. You are going to be shooting mode. You guys are coming here. All right, looks like the steplancers have taken the bait. Not that it's too much bait. It's more of a huge problem for me, but let's see if we can't knock the ---- out of them. Spears in here. Get these guys pulled into my spears. ****, looks like they're starting to take the plaza. Looks like that's just happened. Oh my god. Oh my god. ****. ****, ****, ****, ****, ****, ****. Get some horse archers back in the plaza real quick. Oh dude. Yeah, there is- there is no real doing anything about that. The horde is coming in. You *******- you held up my entire army with this many guys. Go. Go. Flee. Flee for your lives. Oh my god. Looks like they're starting to put up a defensive position. They got young axes here. Oh. Oh dear god. If I can hold this, you guys- you guys owe me. You owe me so much if I can make this started. Let's get these guys in. Oh my god. Oh my god. You. Hold them up. You. Hold them up. You. Some of you go here. I'm gonna take the strongest units, try and move them in. These guys are gonna try and pull them off to the side. Oh my god. What am- what am I supposed to do? What do I do? You keep going here. Um. Slingers, start shooting the ---- out of them. You guys start forcing your way in. Um. You. Go in there. This is crazy. Shut the ****. Shut the **** up. Oh my god. I've stirred the hornet's nest. There's no way in here. There's no way in here. Oh my god. Well that's it for this campaign, guys. This is uh- looks like that's gonna be about all we have unless I can somehow defeat this whole cavalry army and sweep into the steps. That's gonna be it for this campaign. Jesus Christ. Jesus. Shoot them. Shoot them. Shoot them. Actually, if these guys can push in, is that even possible? The only unit making headway is gonna be these guys. They're gonna slowly grind through his horses. No. Go. Go. Go. Go. Brave the arrows. Brave the arrows. They still have one unit here. They still have a whole army here. The counter is going down. These guys have crowded. They can feed all the- they can charge all out. Sit their units here and there's nothing I could do to move forward. Let's go ahead and let's try the impossible. Let's see if we can run the gauntlet. There's no way. There's no way. That's gonna be it, guys. That's gonna be it for the end of my campaign. This is gonna be a pretty, uh, you know, congrats to the DLC units. These steplancers, these step units are just kicking ass. Um, I got my ---- handed to me on a silver platter. Um, yeah, there's no other way to say this. I was utterly destroyed in this campaign, but I think I had a really good time with it. Definitely enjoyed it. Definitely a steep learning curve. I did it all the wrong ways. I was too ambitious. Didn't tech up enough. Didn't use units. Um, my agents well enough. Didn't support my allies. Didn't have diplomacy. You can say innumerable reasons that I should have done better. That's gonna be it, guys. That's gonna be the defeat right there. Only killed 579 of their units. They lost 840 somehow. I don't know how those stats work. Friendly fire, perhaps. Other armies doing damage, but that's gonna be how the battle is called. That's gonna be it for the campaign. I presume unless it's like Rome Barbarian Expansion where I can go ahead and go into like sort of, um, roaming form as a horde. But no, that's gonna be it. That's gonna be the end to my campaign, guys. Thank you so much for keeping track. Let me know what you guys think I can do. What, uh, what other campaigns you'd like to see me try. Definitely looking forward to doing more legendary campaigns, but I'm gonna have to do it very, very differently. And, um, yeah. Thanks so much for all your support, guys. I hope you enjoyed. And, uh, yeah. Thanks for the support. Thanks for sticking through. Hope you enjoyed the battles. Hope you enjoyed the ride. And I'm hoping to start another campaign. So let me know where you think I should try out. The East is definitely a different type of beast than I expected. So let me know where you think we should go next. See you guys next time.